Mean Girls

Here it is, the second outing for the Dynamite Van Pipe project brought to you by Paddy and Craig.
Paddy laid down the basic track in August '09, with his Epi Dot Studio and Ibanez GAX raging a torrent of pure rock, and then had it transmitted by the DVP satellite relay to the Linden, VA studio of of pop legend Tempie.
Communing with the book of heartbreak, Craig conjured words and sang them into a quantum microphone, tuned to 1978.
He then dusted off his Delta King to provide licks and nuance to the maelstrom.
The reslutant tracks were then beamed via microwave back to the UK for Paddy's vocals and mixing to finish this paen to the nasty yet gorgeous ladies we love to hate to love.
Dynamite Van Pipe presents "Mean Girls"
Best played LOUD!

you're the kind of girl
that looks at her boyfriends like she's wondering
who should be my next boyfriend
i'm the kind of guy
you see as just a friend but i
would like it if you used me cause

there's just something about a mean girl

you're the kind of girl
that looks at your friends like
you are wishing
that they were someone else's friends
i'm the kind of guy
standing in line to be your friend
i wish that you would use me too cause

Thanks man...
... this song, like "Nobody Will Ever..." happened organically. I send a groove to Craig and he starts work on a theme and lyrics. It all comes together in a transatlantic melting pot. We pushed the boat out here and it worked.

I'm the kind
of girl that boyfriends look at and say glad she is someone else's problem.... guess I should check into this mean girl thing. Seriously... I think the microwave cooked this to perfection.... great tune!!

....
it's almost like southern rock got it's ass kicked and met up with iggy pop and was all like " hey stooge" and then hopped in a spaceship and destroyed a metor headed right for earth... on the way back there was a fade out....

queens of mean
another great song. there is some magic in the combination of your two sensibilities and talents. nice mixing and guitar twanging.
My favourite hook in this one is the little downward melodic thing in the lines "next boyfriend" and "someone else's friends". just a short moment but one that I want to go back and listen to over and over.
and thus it is downloaded.
thanks much!

Axe work..
.. I must confess to being a secret shredder and had to let it loose on this one. It's to my shame :-)
Mean girls aren't all that scary now, at 40. At 15 they were hot. Now they're just illegal!

mean girls
Delving into your collaboration back-catalog. Great touch with the vocal layering, and you together have a timeless alt-rock sound. That said, I could totally imagine having heard this on the late and intermittently lamented WHFS in DC in its heyday.

And the lyrics have an astringent edge that I find really appealing... Very nice transatlanticism.

We are Dynamite Van Pipe. Formed in 2009 we take straight up rock and mangle it through the imagination of our two main writer/performer producers:
Paddy Navin: Guitars, basses, drums, singing, mandolin, sticks, bagpipes
Craig Thomas: Guitars, ... [see more]

The terms alternative rock and alternative music[1] were coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didn't fit into the mainstream genres of the time. At times it was used as catch-all phrase for rock music from under